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03 November 2026
Simon Cox, head man at the B.H.A. (there is something wrong with 'chair', don't you think, almost derogatory, the chair of the B.H.A.. I was about to write that it is not as if the people who assemble with him around a table and called tablers. Then ...
02 November 2026
What more can anyone say about Ryan Moore? In my long experience of the flat, over sixty-years, he is, in my opinion, the best of the best. When Frankie was riding, I ebbed and flowed on whether he or Ryan was the better. Ryan was always the more con...
01 November 2026
It was said in today's Racing Post that in winning at Down Royal yesterday, Haiti Coulours was winning for the first time at the highest level. I would contend that yesterday's race may have been a Grade 1 steeplechase but it was not of the 'highest ...
31 October 2026
I have to feed a neighbour's cat tonight and again on Sunday morning. To give me, and the cat, of course, the best chance of remembering this simple task, I will stick a note to the television, leave the door key next to the kettle and tie a knot in ...
30 October 2026
There is nothing more pleasing in life than to be proved right, not that it happens too often in my case, so forgive me starting with a gloat. Not that the P.J.A. are happy; they are quite cross, though pleased that the B.H.A. have stepped in and qua...
29 October 2026
One of the lesser mysteries in the world, at least to me, is when a jockey has to go abroad to prove to his fellow natives how good he or she is. Rachel King could barely get a ride in her home country, yet after relocating to Australia she is noted ...